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TauCeti.NumberTheory.NumberField.Global.Places.UnitPowerClasses

Unit power classes at finite places #

At a finite place v of a number field K not dividing n, the units of the completed integer ring have as many n-th power classes as there are n-th roots of unity in K_v. If K contains these roots, the count is n, and consequently the product of these unit quotients over a finite set T has n ^ #T elements. This is the local cardinality input to the S-unit surjectivity argument in the Kummer proof of the second fundamental inequality.

The local calculation is TauCeti.card_integerUnitPowerClasses_of_isUnit, transported along the existing identification HeightOneSpectrum.integerEquivAdicCompletionIntegers of the two integer-ring presentations of the completion.

References #

For nonzero n, the n-th powers of the completed integer-ring units have finite index.

For nonzero n, the power-map range on completed integer-ring units has finite index.

For nonzero n, the power-class quotient of the completed integer-ring units is finite.

At a finite place away from n, the completed integer-ring units have as many n-th power classes as there are n-th roots of unity in the completion.

At a finite place away from n, the completed integer-ring units have n power classes if the number field contains the n-th roots of unity.

The product of local unit power-class counts. If K contains μ_n and T is a finite set of finite places avoiding n, then the product of the orders of their unit power-class quotients is n ^ #T.